Sheriff's SWAT team, DPS raid building on felony drug warrant

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Dec 18, 2010 at 2:05 PM

The Lubbock Sheriff's SWAT team and Department of Public Safety troopers apprehended two men after a three-hour standoff Friday evening just south of Lubbock.

The SWAT team, which was called to assist the DPS in a drug-related felony arrest warrant, used chemical irritant gas and brute force to draw out two men held up in a storage unit on Avenue D just south of 82nd Street, said sheriff's Capt. Mike Reed.

DPS officials took 27-year-old Clayton Keen and 43-year-old Douglas Alan Roberts into custody just before 8 p.m. - only after the sheriff's full SWAT team surrounded them at gun point following three hours of attempted negotiations to get the men to come out peacefully, Reed said.

SWAT officials and state troopers had barricaded the storage unit since just before 5 p.m. Friday after state troopers acting on the felony search warrant located the men in the building.

One of the men, who was hiding in a vehicle in the storage unit, put up a brief struggle with SWAT team members, though none of the men was seriously injured.

None of the law enforcement officials were injured during the raid.

Keen was charged with one count of possession of one to four grams of a controlled substance with intent to deliver - a second degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.

He was also charged with possession of less than two ounces of marijuana, a misdemeanor. As of Saturday, he was in the Lubbock County Detention Center on about $24,000 bail.

Roberts was charged with hindering apprehension and was in the Detention Center on a $2,500 bond.

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